You’ve gotta admire cheerleaders – with all their pep and vigor, energy and vitality. They can energize a crowd and bring ‘em to their feet and they have the power to really psyche up the players, too. Who wouldn’t be thrilled to have a group of adoring admirers infusing the crowd with vitality and rooting for your success? Read more…

These series of attacks and remissions make a diagnosis of MS difficult to pin down. Often, early in the disease, a person has one or more of these puzzling symptoms but doesn’t bring it to the attention of a physician because it simply goes away on its own. Read more…

Before I turned nineteen, I had never been fully exposed to grief. Yes, I had been to the funerals of great-grandparents, but I’d never experienced a loss that would transform me forever. When I was nineteen and a sophomore in college, my innocent view of grief changed, I got to know the emotion better than any other emotion. Read more…

The day came for us to view our daughter. I was terrified and frightened. I did not want to go. The viewing would only make things real. It couldn’t be real! Would I allow my children to see their sister, dead? Could I bare to see them go through that? I couldn’t make that decision for them. I wouldn’t make that decision for them. They said they didn’t want to go. Could I blame them? I didn’t want to go. Read more…

If your members become injured while exercising, they may stop using your facility, or at least take a break from working out. Says Chase of Exerflex, “If [members] do become injured, they are more likely to look for a facility that has surfacing that is more appropriate for the activities that they participate in most frequently.” Read more…

Sports areas. For sports activities such as basketball, racquetball, etc., the amount of traction is of special concern. Says Tricca of Linray, “To maintain the purity of each sport, traction is most important. Foot speed and ball bounce are [important] features, and a surface that is too slow or that diminishes ball bounce would be viewed negatively.” Read more…

Francis explains that exercise floors must not only absorb shock, but that they must do so consistently over the whole floor: “Some hardwood floors have ‘soft’ or ‘hard’ spots. A ‘basket weave’ type of sub-floor can solve this problem” (criss-crossing planks in the sub-floor). If a floor has inconsistent shock absorption, exercisers may, at the least, notice it, and at the most, injure themselves. Read more…